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Marriott Sees ‘Improving Trends’ In Greater China As Region’s Travel Begins Recovery

PYMNTS

Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on a Monday (May 11) earnings call that, overall, “negative trends appear to have bottomed in most regions around the world. He noted that occupancy levels in the region are currently a bit more than 30 percent, which is higher from the lows of below 10 percent in mid-February.

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June’s Top 12 Mobile Pay Moments

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And what better way to mark that milestone than with a monthly recap of the Top 12 news items in one major market in the payments ecosystem: mobile payments. Here’s what you may have missed this month from some of the top mobile pay players. And it’s got one major goal with this mobile payments play: loyalty.

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USA Technologies Inks Deal With Several Pepsi Bottlers

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USA Technologies (USAT), the payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail, announced Wednesday (Feb. 8) agreements with several Pepsi Cola bottling franchisees throughout North and South Carolina to use USAT’s cashless payment technologies within their existing inventory of vending machines.

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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A new report shows that 70 percent of Americans use their mobile devices and restaurant apps at some point during the dining journey. Using a laptop or mobile phone, anyone, anywhere, is just a few clicks away from having their favorite meal delivered to wherever they happen to be. But the reviews for dining apps aren’t so clean.

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Fraud Ideas from FICO World 2022 – and Excitement for 2023!

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We in the audience were fascinated by the different fraud schemes and scams that Ulisses and Kerem shared from their regions, with Julie pointing out that a surge of new mobile banking users during the pandemic created ripe conditions for fraudsters. in statistics, both from the University of South Carolina.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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Walmart Pay: The mobile payments app has captured more in-store share than Apple Pay, and is among the stickiest mobile payments app that customers carry. Outside-the-box application of mobile technology: Wegmans is the first supermarket chain in the U.S. District 7: Wegmans. Weaknesses. District 10: Publix.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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For example, supply chain automation startup Fetch Robotics , which provides autonomous mobile robots to warehouses, saw a 63% increase in inbound requests from February to March 2020. Fintech innovations, including contactless payments, mobile financial services, and loan and insurance tech have all been climbing steadily for years.

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